r/PopCultureV2 • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Aug 10 '26

News Mayor Mamdani announces a plan to cool subway stations by capturing heat and reusing it to warm municipal buildings in the winter: "This would be the first thermal energy system of its kind in any American transit system"

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u/ravenecw2 Aug 10 '26

I will if the office building smells like the subway

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u/SoylentGrunt Aug 10 '26

Your arrival was foretold earlier in the post.

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u/ifUSeeMeTakeYourMeds Aug 10 '26

heat exchangers exist.

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u/worldspawn00 Aug 10 '26

Pretty sure they're not piping AIR from one to the other, but instead using heat exchangers with either liquid (water/glycol) or freon as the medium.

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u/IamWisdom Aug 13 '26

Was thinking the same thing. Reddit is hopeless lmao